MA Great Barrington, Birth to unknown parents.
Possible name of father: Gideon.
[Source: Family records written by daughter or granddaughter]
His sisters: Laura and Lovica, both of whom married Harry/Harvey MARSH.
Laura died at age 22.
William King's brothers: George, Anson, Gideon, Horace
[SOURCE: This written in daughter or granddaughter's handwriting.]

CLUES

See CLUES at end of chronology for list of
Lovica and Harry's family.

CLUES:

Early Marriages before 1850 Berkshire Co. MA
Pub. By NEHGS Eddy Town
Record Fund. Marriage between KING, Gideon and HOOKER,
Elisabeth on
22 May 1783 in New Marlborough [next to Great Barrington twp.]
Possible parents of William King.

1791 Oct 4

Birth Date: Date calculated by death date and
age on tombstone in Greenwood Cemetery, Canton Ill. Age 87 yrs. 7 mos.
12 da.Discrepancy: Family records written by his granddaughter,
Mary Jane SPROUL lists birth date as 8 Dec 1790. Thought to be correct.

1800 ca

MA – NY Perhaps family move to Ontario Co.

1812/13 Oct 10

NY Ontario Co. East Bloomfield. Marriage
to Mary BROWN of Saratoga Co.? *NY Married 10 Oct. 1812 by one
Ayres Baptist Minister,
[ SOURCE: NARA Military Service Pension Record #28095 28 June
1878 Bounty Land Grant Records from National Archives. War of 1812]
[*Mary's birthplace may be elsewhere, perhaps Waterloo,
Seneca Co. NY]

1813 Dec 20/23

NY Ontario Co. East Bloomfield. Enlisted in New
York Militia as volunteer. William gives date as 20th. Military
records say 23rd. Capt. William B. Hamlin's Co. 7th Regiment, NY
Militia. Another page says the 5 Dec. William says 1st Lt. Records
say Ensign.
[SOURCE: NARA Military Service Pension Record #28095 28
June 1878 Bounty Land Grant Records from National Archives. War of 1812]
Short time service prevented him from claiming Bounty Land of 160 or 40
acres. He used the following account to prove he had served long enough
to be eligible for bounty land.]
13 Dec. 1813 to 6 Jan. 1814. William King insists he was
discharged in
Buffalo, NY without discharge papers and kept on as a "Minute
Man". He
fought in Battle of Black Rock, 3 miles from Buffalo. Recorded
are
several of his memories of that battle." General Hall (a memory),
Colonel Blakeslee (in the record), Capt. William B. Hamlin's Company
7th Regiment in New York Militia." Service Register #28922
[SOURCE: Affidavit for Bounty Land Claim, signed by William King]

1813 Dec 23 –
1814 Jan 6

NY served in War of 1812 near Buffalo, NY.
Battle of Black Rock. No discharge papers.

Prob. NY birth of child, Anise. Nothing else
known about this person.
[William's brother was named Anson and perhaps this is a name error]
[Source: Family records handwritten by daughter or gr daughter..]

NY Cattaraugus Co. Randolph. Move from OH back
to NY. Other members of his family moved to Randolph in 1829.
[SOURCE: Granddaughter Roxanne King Sproul's obituary. "When
she was young they moved to Randolph, NY".]

NY-IL Thought to be permanent move of family.
[Source: John Bailey, son-in-law, indicates date in
affidavit. John Bailey's marriage to daughter, Elizabeth Wells King is
Dec 1844. Therefore at least she is in IL.]

IL Marshall Co., Henry. At
age 55 William King made claim to Bounty Land in Marshall Co.
on 2 and 3 Apr 1855. He listed this place as address in his
application. [unknown length of residence]
[SOURCE: Copy of affidavit]

!BIRTH: Date calculated by death date and age on tombstone
in Greenwood Cemetery, Canton Ill. Age 87 yrs. 7 mos. 12 da.
Discrepancy in family records written by his granddaughter, Mary Jane
SPROUL which lists birth date as 8 Dec 1790. Thought to be
correct.
BIRTH Place written in family notes written by granddaughter, Mary Jane
SPROUL. "Great Barnington MA or Podunck, MA" sic. [1860 Census lists
Conn.]

!MARRIAGE: Bounty Land Grant Records from National Archives. War of
1812. #William King and Mary Brown King. Married 10 Oct. 1812 by one
Ayres Baptist Minister, East Bloomfield, Ontario Co. NY

Children
List made about 1900. Birth, death and burial records from Randolph,
Cattaraugus website 2003.

Laura Ann m. Ben Taylor
??b. 1836 d. 1904
Possibly this Laura Marsh A listing of Laura Marsh m.
Benjamin Marsh. Could this be an error and his name is Ben Taylor
as listed in handwritten family records? Both are Bur. Sample Cem.
Randolph, Cattaraugus Co. NY.

These records are in the SPROUL/KING file. The
witnesses for some of William King's affidavits are his
son-in-law, John BAILEY Sr., and his granddaughter, Mary THOMPSON,
daughter of Elizabeth KING
Wells Bailey and John Bailey. Mary was wife of Lewis Thompson.

On a Pension Claim Affidavit signed witnesses are: Christopher WILSON
and
Charles T. COLEMAN. Both of these men are found in Cemetery Records,
Canton
Fulton Co. ILL. It is unknown if they are related.
Considered a possibility
because widow, Mary, was unable to write and probably wanted a trusted
family
member and her other affidavit witnesses were family. Other witnesses:
J. R. McQUAID and James M.
HORTWICK. Another document witnessed by J. BAILEY and
Sands N. Breed who was the Notary Public.

CLUE: POSSIBLE PARENTS OF WILLIAM KING

in IGI fiche: Gideon King married Grasilva HENDRICKS in
Palmer, Hampden Co, MA,[ which is close to
Springfield], on 21 May 1778. Two children to Gideon and Salva
KING are also on this fiche: Gideon
b.1780 and Walter b. 1797.

ANOTHER CLUE: 5 Dec 1791 Birth of William KING to Isaac King and Sarah
??? nr. Springfield MA